Trump’s Campaign Wrongly Declared Victory In Pennsylvania As He Faces Losses In Key States
That declaration, which has not been backed by any neutral news organizations or analysts, came as the president faced increasingly steep odds, with the
Facing that, Trump's campaign abruptly announced that it had won
It amounted to an attempt by the president to short-circuit the counting of legitimate votes that would decide his political fate.
Trump has also initiated legal action in
In
Democratic and some Republican operatives say Biden has a good chance to win
Biden said he "feels good" about
"Every vote must be counted. No one's going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever," Biden said at a news conference in
He added, "after a long night of counting it's clear that we are winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency."
The Trump campaign wrongly declared victory minutes before Biden spoke, and just ahead of a news conference scheduled to occur in
The campaign also attacked the count with a baseless assertion that
The Trump campaign said it planned to file three legal challenges -- including one that would seek to temporarily halt vote counting in the state over claims that Republican canvassing monitors had been kept too far away to meaningfully observe the process.
The Trump campaign's moves come as other results around the country have left the president facing increasingly narrow political math. If Trump loses
Early returns in the state are right now more skewed toward Trump than the final results will be, because
But
While Trump had a roughly 400,000 vote edge Wednesday afternoon,
The Trump campaign made its own assertions, but with little evidence.
"We are declaring a victory in
The campaign did not take questions about its assertion. Stepien said top campaign officials are in
Wolf hit back at the lawsuits attempting to stop the vote and effectively attack the election itself.
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He added that in
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